I'm a Libertarian living in Humboldt County, CA. I've lived here in Eureka since 1973 and joined the Libertarian Party in 1992. This blog will mostly focus on local political issues, but I may stray into state and national issues as well, when I can't help myself. Please post your comments by clicking on the "comments" link at the bottom of each post. Although I do moderate comments, you need not be a registered user to post them.

Friday, January 10, 2014

White vs. Dark Chicken

A letter to the editor of the Sacramento Bee led me to this earlier article on the benefits of dark meat- in this case, dark chicken meat. Good point, and nice to read as I'm one who is not very fond of chicken breasts. Hopefully the letter writer is right and the pendulum will swing back for dark meat as it has in the old margarine vs. butter battle.The bottom line, though, is life's too short to eat things you don't like, so eat what you want!

Go easy on the spaghetti because spaghetti is the kind of trash food that makes poor people fat. This advice was replaced by:

Eat lots of spaghetti because spaghetti contains complex carbohydrates, which was replaced by:

Don’t eat spaghetti because spaghetti is nothing more than empty calories, which was replaced by:

Eat lots of spaghetti because spaghetti is part of a Mediterranean diet, and Mediterranean people live to very old ages.

A glass of wine with dinner is good for the nerves, which was replaced by:

A
single sip of alcohol leaves whole mountainsides of clear-cut brain
cells in its wake, so never drink anything alcoholic, which was replaced
by:

In spite of scarfing down unplucked songbirds, and sheep
pancreases, and things even the Chinese won’t eat, French people drink
lots of red wine, and they live longer than you do, so drink red wine,
but not because you enjoy it, which was replaced by:

It’s not
the alcohol that makes the French live a long time, it’s the grapes
their wine is made out of. So drink grape juice, instead, which was
replaced by:

It’s not the grapes, it’s the alcohol. Alcohol
clears your arteries. Skip the red wine, chug down the hard stuff, and
you can live as long as a Frenchman without the sulfites.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, which was replaced by:

Modern-day
factory farmed apples come coated with Alar. Alar is the most potent
cancer-causing agent in our food supply, so don’t even think about
touching an apple unless you are wearing a hazmat suit, which was
replaced by:

Alar is nothing more than an apple growth-regulating hormone and doesn’t have anything to do with people, so go on, eat apples.

- See more at: http://libertyunbound.com/node/1185#sthash.EVTqnAZJ.dpuf

Go easy on the spaghetti because spaghetti is the kind of trash food that makes poor people fat. This advice was replaced by:

Eat lots of spaghetti because spaghetti contains complex carbohydrates, which was replaced by:

Don’t eat spaghetti because spaghetti is nothing more than empty calories, which was replaced by:

Eat lots of spaghetti because spaghetti is part of a Mediterranean diet, and Mediterranean people live to very old ages.

A glass of wine with dinner is good for the nerves, which was replaced by:

A
single sip of alcohol leaves whole mountainsides of clear-cut brain
cells in its wake, so never drink anything alcoholic, which was replaced
by:

In spite of scarfing down unplucked songbirds, and sheep
pancreases, and things even the Chinese won’t eat, French people drink
lots of red wine, and they live longer than you do, so drink red wine,
but not because you enjoy it, which was replaced by:

It’s not
the alcohol that makes the French live a long time, it’s the grapes
their wine is made out of. So drink grape juice, instead, which was
replaced by:

It’s not the grapes, it’s the alcohol. Alcohol
clears your arteries. Skip the red wine, chug down the hard stuff, and
you can live as long as a Frenchman without the sulfites.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, which was replaced by:

Modern-day
factory farmed apples come coated with Alar. Alar is the most potent
cancer-causing agent in our food supply, so don’t even think about
touching an apple unless you are wearing a hazmat suit, which was
replaced by:

Alar is nothing more than an apple growth-regulating hormone and doesn’t have anything to do with people, so go on, eat apples.

- See more at: http://libertyunbound.com/node/1185#sthash.EVTqnAZJ.dpuf